I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I’ll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I’ll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play.
BEN AFFLECKI’m not the most loathsome man in the world. I’ve dropped to number nine.
More Ben Affleck Quotes
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I kinda see my current position like this: Here’s your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before ‘Chuck Woolery’ rings the bell.
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The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you’re trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.
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But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn’t know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.
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I try to cast really good actors and give them a chance to do their very best work, give them as much time and space as they need.
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A friend of my mom’s was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.
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Studios are used to have an investment in you, an actual, literal investment in an actor. You paid them some money, you had a contract with them and you were almost like a commodity.
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All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
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I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It’s such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how they don’t want to be a sex symbol.
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You’re basically the sum of all the experiences you’ve ever had, and they’re sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.
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I feel like fame is wasted on me.
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I’ve never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.
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Directing is monumentally complicated and it’s a function of all the time you pay to it. I think it would be great to do a movie I’m not in, I could just eat Fritos and just say, ‘yeah, it’s good!’ Some day.
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I don’t go back and look at the monitor between every take; I wait until I feel like we finally got it right: “Let me stop and look at that last one on the monitor.”
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Sometimes the people we meet change us forever.
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If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I’d call.
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I’m not the most loathsome man in the world. I’ve dropped to number nine.
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People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I’ve never been inside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up at school, even though that wasn’t me at all.
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It wasn’t my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor.
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I’m human, just like anybody else.
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A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can’t. Either way a sale is made, the only question is: Who is gonna close?
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Such a senseless and tragic day. My family and I send our love to our beloved and resilient Boston.
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No matter what you’re doing, if you’re trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really good and who make you better.
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I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.
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You have to be kind to people. Treat them decently. There’s no excuse for not.
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If we try to define our own moral universe, there’s a price for that.
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I find forgiveness to be really healthy.
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